From the links, which one does not work well with Netscape, the next seems like and ad for ad aware and the third which says

>>As for the spyware allegations, they're not true. Such reports amounted to nothing more than one of those urban legends that circulate around the Web. While its software does tell its server someone has seen one of its custom cursors -- they get paid based on these impressions -- it doesn't send any identifying information about the user back to the company.

I hadn't given it much thought before now but I'm glad you guy's mentioned it here. I'm a network admin for about 120 systems and (thankfully) only 3 or 4 of my end-users use Comet Cursor. I hadn't really dug into it before.

Originally posted by novacain From the links, which one does not work well with Netscape, the next seems like and ad for ad aware and the third which says

>>As for the spyware allegations, they're not true. Such reports amounted to nothing more than one of those urban legends that circulate around the Web. While its software does tell its server someone has seen one of its custom cursors -- they get paid based on these impressions -- it doesn't send any identifying information about the user back to the company.

First link, Lavasoft.de is the company which makes the free software, "ad-aware" this program removes spyware programs such as gator and comet cursor.

The second link was someone's opinion on Comet Cursor
The third link was someone else's [different] opinion [i tried to get a balanced view]